Politics & Government News

3:33 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are requesting that Jack Smith, the former Justice Department special counsel, appear for an interview

3:08 PM on Tuesday, October 14

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3:07 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Trump says US could cut aid for Buenos Aires if Argentina moves leftward in this month's legislative election

2:44 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Florida officials have been accused of failing to disclose their application for federal reimbursement for an immigration detention center in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

2:33 PM on Tuesday, October 14

President Trump is posthumously awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk

2:28 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Trump says he wants back dead hostages held in Gaza and warns Hamas if 'they don't disarm, we will disarm them'

2:01 PM on Tuesday, October 14

1:55 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon

1:52 PM on Tuesday, October 14

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela

1:48 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Trump says US has struck another small boat he accuses of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6 people

1:33 PM on Tuesday, October 14

President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the country has ever seen

1:25 PM on Tuesday, October 14

NATO defense ministers will gather to try and drum up military support for Ukraine

1:14 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Some airports around the country are saying they won’t play a video with a message from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdown and its impacts on operations to screen travelers

1:12 PM on Tuesday, October 14

Top Republicans in the Texas Legislature have announced the creation of committees tasked with “getting to the bottom of” the July flooding that killed more than 130 people, including 25 young girls and two teenage counselors at Camp Mystic

9:45 AM on Tuesday, October 14

A man who scaled a security fence in the middle of the night and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and other charges

8:34 AM on Tuesday, October 14

The shutdown entered its 14th day with the Senate returning from its holiday break, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson refusing to call lawmakers back to Washington and President Donald Trump’s budget director vowing to keep firing federal workers

7:08 AM on Tuesday, October 14

The New England governor who told President Donald Trump to his face she'd see him in court now plans to challenge Maine’s Republican Sen. Susan Collins at the ballot box

4:45 AM on Tuesday, October 14

Cameroon's opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary has claimed victory in the Oct. 12 presidential election ahead of the release of official results

3:37 AM on Tuesday, October 14

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw assistance from Argentina if its internal politics don't align with U.S. interests in upcoming elections

4:42 PM on Friday, October 10

Questions have been swirling for weeks over whether Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents might target the Chicago Marathon